Some of you may remember Boone Morrison… a skilled modeler in Hon3 and On3, historian of the North Pacific Coast Railroad and long-time columnist in the NG&SL Gazette… His first name, Boone came from his Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather, Daniel Boone… Later in life he took up black powder rifles, and became a “French & Indian” war (for you across the pond... the War of Jenkin's Ear, King Phillips War, and several others in the 1740's between France and England) reenactor… those reenactments taking place in eastern Kentucky in the vicinity of the Cumberland Gap… A long way away from his home in Hawaii.
For the reenactment, he had to have his clothing juried… a jury who included an anthropolgist/archiologist, a National Park ranger and a historian of the period… The Archaeologist was particularly interested in his moccasins, which he had made… Apparently they were of a pattern which he had found in digs, but had never seen as usable footwear… He asked where he got them?… he answered that he had made them… He wanted to know where he learned to make them?… from his grandmother… who taught his cub scout pack… Where did she learn to make them?... Probably from her grandfather… Who was her Grandfather? … Daniel Boone… They were deemed acceptable…
Randy Hees
Director, Nevada State Railroad Museum, Boulder City, retired
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